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Micro-sized robots could have a plethora of applications, with their dimensions allowing them to perform various practical tasks inside tightly confined spaces. They could help us repair or assemble ...

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A study on the new robots titled "Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots" has been published in the journal Science Robotics. Exploratory research by engineers from Northwestern ...

What's 3.6 cm tall (1.4 in), and could one day be performing tasks such as walking through disaster site rubble looking for trapped survivors? It's Zippy, which is reportedly the smallest ...

This may be the tiniest robot you’ve ever seen. Shaped like a peekytoe crab, it’s a half-millimeter across and it can crawl, jump, bend, and twist through tiny apertures. The edge of a coin provides ...

(CNN) — For these tiny robotic crabs, being small is a virtue. Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, invented the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot, according to ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.